From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 27 6:36:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gadolinium.btinternet.com (gadolinium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 971C937B401 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 06:36:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from host213-121-126-146.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([213.121.126.146] helo=saxon) by carbon with smtp (Exim 3.22 #8) id 17C4LL-0005nz-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 26 May 2002 21:10:19 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Simon Windsor Reply-To: simon.windsor@btinternet.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New user - Many questions Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 21:09:28 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <0205261131090Q.00997@saxon> <20020527074200.A46094@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020527074200.A46094@grimoire.chen.org.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02052621092800.10268@saxon> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi On Sunday 26 May 2002 8:42 pm, you wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 11:31:09AM +0100, Simon Windsor wrote: > > - Why is the base system so big ? I here that perl is being removed, > > shouldn't sendmail,bind/named also be removed to packages ? > > The base system has everything needed for a full *working* system, and > only weighs in about 200Mb. How big did you expect it go be? A basic UNIX install of 200MB is indeed very good. I merely was asking should not many of the basic utilities be installed as packages, like Linux, for example do you want sendmail, exim or no mail server etc. This could equally apply do other parts of the base system where many people might want a choice of other options. This might not be the FreeBSD way of doing things, and if so I am sorry for raising the point. Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message